Word: conveyances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are times when Aaron manages to find and convey the dramatic moments. The reporter describing New York's death by the black gas, James Stinson, has the reserve of an announcer and the sensitivity to horror of the actor. Colgate Salsbury brings a depth and a strength, mingled with pomposity, to the Secretary of the Interior. Eugene Pell does a praiseworthy, although not convincing job as the Princeton professor who watches the Martians with a philosophical eye from the first flourish to the last wriggle...
...play probably has enough serviceable tricks, enough scattered brilliance, enough second-bounce for a superlative production to bring the whole thing off. The current production is no more than a very competent one; it cannot convey a needed sense of grand-staircased crescendoes and crystal-chandeliered wit. As Magnus, Maurice Evans has his real virtues, and the right polished utterance, but for parry-and-thrust he uses a gold-headed cane instead of a rapier, and he seems in manner more tutorial than ironic...
...steps, and from his hero's sometimes poignant inability to cope with events or comprehend reality: "I say living without knowing what it is. I tried to live without knowing what I was trying. Perhaps I have lived after all, without knowing." As a craftsman, Beckett tries to convey the chaotic by means of the incoherent, and fails. He possesses fierce intellectual honesty, and his prose has a bare, involuted rhythm that is almost hypnotic. Yet, in the end, his derelict's vision of humanity is that of the prideful or fearful castaway who reduces the meaning...
...with his granddaughter Sandra (one of John D. Ill's daughters) about her life at Vassar and his life long ago at Old Brown. J.D.R. Jr. might even relate boyhood maxims: "He Who Conquers Self Is the Greatest Victor," or "The Secret of Sensible Living Is Simplicity." Or convey his eternal hope. "I think that in a hundred years," he wrote at school long ago, "it is to be hoped and expected that the people of our country will be wiser and better, and therefore happier, than...
...Indian cemetery established in the 18403 when the Wyandottes moved to Kansas from Ohio and Michigan, the land was part of the property ceded to the Federal Government in 1855 in exchange for lands in Oklahoma. However, the Wyandottes insist they never did convey title to the cemetery to anybody. For more than 60 years they have been seeking to regain possession, but each attempt was blocked by Kansas' Representatives in Washington. Finally, this year, the tribe employed an old-fashioned tactic: ambush. Public Law 887 was presented to Congress as an Interior Department bill, and the Interior Department...